'South Park' has been making us laugh with its signature brand of no-holds-barred parody since 1997. (Or since 1995, if you count the notorious 'Spirit of Christmas' shorts that took the internet by storm before the Comedy Central show launched.)

Because everybody's favorite animated nine-year olds have been around for so long, it's almost like they've become real life characters. They're not of course, but if they were . . .

Eric Cartman in real life
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According to a Reddit user who snapped this photo of Eric Cartman's flesh and blood doppelganger on the site, the real life Cartman (who is his roommate) deliberately dresses up like South Park's comic foil. As for the sour look on his face, if he's anything like Cartman one of about a million things could be bothering him. But, if we were to take a guess, it's probably because he's being forced to read.

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